Juvenile Justice Specialist

Brightpoint • Alton, IL

7h • $21 - $23 • Hybrid

About The Position

Brightpoint invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision: an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities. As a leader in the human services sector for 140 years, we aim to advance the well-being of children by investing in families and strengthening communities through data-informed, collaborative, and preventative solutions. The Juvenile Justice Specialist is a critical member of Brightpoint's team, providing strength-based, trauma-informed case management services to juvenile justice-involved youth. The program relies on a collaborative, wraparound approach to services, focusing on increasing protective factors, including emotional regulation and educational and vocational goals, to set youth up for a safe and successful future, free of incarceration. As a Juvenile Justice Specialist, you will meet with youth and families in their homes and other community-based locations, providing individualized services aimed at strengthening relationships, addressing trauma, and building positive community connections. You will also help youth and families to navigate the Juvenile Justice System, work closely with other service providers such as educational and workforce readiness programs, local probation departments, and mental health and substance abuse treatment providers to ensure coordination of services, and complete thorough and timely documentation, including assessment and service notes, using a web-based client services platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, or a closely related social services field required.
• Valid driver's license, insurance, and access to a reliable vehicle required.
• Clear and strength-based communication style, both verbally and in your written communication, required.
• You recognize that juvenile justice-involved youth have experienced trauma that must be understood and addressed to support healing and thriving.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with juvenile justice-involved youth preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a caseload involving clients’ needs ranging from routine to complex and provides a range of social services, utilizing the social work principles and theory in diagnosis and treatment of clients.
• Arranges and/or provides services needed to meet the immediate needs of client(s) through a trauma-informed approach.
• Assesses client’s situation and functioning.
• Formulates service/treatment plans and goals with clients and families using wraparound planning to build upon strengths and to address needs, obtains supervisory approval of the plan, and is responsible for the implementation of the plan.
• Analyzes and evaluates progress in the service/treatment plan and modifies when necessary to meet the needs and goals of the client(s).
• Assumes responsibility for comprehensive case management which includes needs assessment, service planning, case coordination, service brokerage, linkages with community resources, monitoring progress toward client(s) goals and objectives, and makes recommendations for on-going services when necessary.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 3+ weeks paid time off in the first year including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day (PTO increases with tenure)
• 11 paid holidays
• Supplemental insurance options
• 401(k) with match
• Leadership development opportunities
• One-on-one mentorship
• Approved agency for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level